Mimi Chen Ting: Ties Unbound

March 28 – May 2, 2026

Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present Mimi Chen Ting: Ties Unbound. This exhibition traces the stylistic evolution of Chinese American artist Mimi Chen Ting (1946-2022) from semi-autobiographical figuration to fluently expressive abstract painting. The artist’s reflections on her experiences as an immigrant, woman, and creative spirit remained a recurring theme as her approach shifted from the early 1990s to late 2000s. Ting visualized the conflicting obligations and enmeshments of identity, duty, and longing in the form of sinuous, intertwined cords. They evoke blood vessels or bindings, weaving throughout her paintings with equal capacity to strengthen, connect, or confine. It’s a fear of being bound,” she mused in a 2021 interview, “that’s behind everything I do.”